RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: UKRAINE
Voting in a War Zone
Imagine your home invaded by armed thugs
Miraculously you fight them back
But they hold the living room
With guns drawn they insist on a vote
To decide who will inhabit this space
Vote for them and life goes on
Until they deny you passage through
Your own living room
Vote against them and they open fire
This is what Russia did in Crimea
This in what they have done in Luhansk,
Kherson, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia
Voting in a war zone is not democracy
It is the opposite of democracy
It is itself a crime against humanity
It makes a mockery of democracy
Just as the Russian Federation does
With its mock elections
Voting with a gun to your head is not voting
Voting with a gun to your head is survival
Why would a dictator conduct such mockery?
It reveals his weakness and foreshadows
The depravity to come
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